Cartoons of the Year 2010

I’ve got a relatively nice job and a relatively nice wife and relatively nice kids. Hell, I’ve even got relatively nice relatives, so I know I should be relatively happy. But lately, I’ve been a little bit down.

Well, maybe more than a little:

Perhaps it’s my insane workload.

Even after clearing my plate, I was still in a funk. My shrink wasn’t helpful.

And self-help books didn’t help.

But where books failed, something booklike didn’t.

This special edition of The New Yorker is on newsstands for the next few months, and also on The Cartoon Bank. If you are one of those people who say they only read The New Yorker for cartoons, this special edition is going to be very special for you. The only thing in it, besides more than three hundred cartoons from The New Yorker, are even more cartoons drawn especially for this special edition. For example, Roz Chast’s Chastian take on the year (excerpt below).

And Lee Lorenz’s four frontispieces cartoonizing the seasons. Here’s Lee’s depiction of winter:

What more could you want? World peace? Bipartisanship? Airport sexual-abuse counselling? At the moment, all I can offer is this slide show of airport-security cartoons. Otherwise, I’ve got a lot on my plate.

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